XML and PHP

PHP and XML

Now that you’ve seen what PHP and XML are each about individually, you’re probably wondering how the two of them fit together.

The overall vision of XML and its ancillary technologies is very clear—mark up data in XML, format it with XSL, link it together with XLink, and use it in a myriad of different ways. In reality, though, this overarching vision hits an obstacle at the first stage itself—most browsers don’t come with either an XML parser or an XSL processor. The latest versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator do support XML, but older versions don’t. And this begs an obvious question: given that these browsers do not support XML (or support it in an incomplete manner), how do you, as a web developer, even begin ...